Cage & Mirror Publishing

Books by Jeremy McEntire

The same structural thinking applied across different domains.

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The Cage and the Mirror

How to Make Rigid Organizations Resilient Again

Organizations face an inescapable problem: the very formalization that enables coordination at scale creates blind spots that well-meaning people cannot perceive from inside. This book explains the physics and what you can do about it.

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The Key and the Current

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The Science of Why Systems Fail the Same Way at Every Scale

A companion to The Cage and the Mirror. Every system that coordinates — code, teams, companies, AI — compresses information to function. That compression creates a gap between what the system knows about itself and what is actually true. A quiet current fills that gap. This book identifies the single generating rule behind the pattern and the specific configurations that stop it.

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Introduction to Applied Synthesis

Foundations of Integrative Reasoning — Third Edition

A rigorous course in motivated perception — the systematic ways human reasoning becomes captured by forces we don't perceive, causing us to miss critical insights until hindsight makes the errors obvious. Fourteen domains where perception fails, each posed as a problem without a clean solution.

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Beyond Code

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Context, Constraints, and the New Craft of Software

Software engineering is not code. It is the discipline of building systems under constraints that the code cannot express. This book examines what changes when you stop treating programming as the point.

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Privacy

The Architecture of Forgetting

The web was not designed for permanence. This book examines the cryptographic and architectural foundations of a privacy-preserving internet — anonymous identity, blind databases, and systems designed to forget.

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